Posts by OldMacGuy

I'd like them to fix the amount of time it takes to run "repair permissions" in 10.5.5. Maybe they did -- I haven't tried to run it yet. Between Tiger and Leopard (on my G5 iMac with max ram), it went from 5 minutes or so to 30...

Quote: Originally Posted by jawporta You are an old dork, Mail sets it self up and FireFox is drag and drop. Thumbs up for still trying though, I don't plan on doing anything at 70. Mail did NOT set itself up. There is a known...

70 next month. I don't get the commercial at all. And I'll never switch to MS. And I never watched Seinfeld. OMG I'm going to die soon without ever enjoying the joys of a MS OS!! And I hate Apple for making Mail so incredibly hard to...

Maybe they can use it on the Zune.

Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Could be a repeat of iPod vs Zune where MS was so late to the game they're irrelevant. I can hardly wait to see what MS does with Yahoo.

Well, my 15 year-old granddaughter saved up and bought a MB. Her 18 yr-old sister's Dell just crashed. Again. Her dad and I promised her a MBP to take to college. My son has absolutely committed himself to a new Mac when he replaces HIS...

Not to say anything in favor of Vista or any other MS product, BUT MY copy of Leopard is still sitting on the shelf, uninstalled. Among other apps, SuperDuper! isn't Leo-compatible, and some of my other apps would require expensive...

I've been meeting friends whose kids have convinced them to buy Macs. The kids have not been corrupted by work computers. Unfortunately, while the kids are comfortable with their own Macs, they aren't showing the parents how to actually...

Next step -- sue all the TV stations and weatherpeople who use Green Screens. Should be a no-brainer

All the Apple stores: http://www.apple.com/retail/storelist/ The Short Hills, NJ Mall store has been closed for a couple of months. It's set to re-open this weekend, I think (they sent me an email about the reopening). The only...